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Sen. Mike Lee refuses to answer Qs regarding his controversial post in the wake of the MN shootings or his conversation with Sen. Tina Smith over the post. His aide attempted to shield our cameras as we questioned him.
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Brennan Leach
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Brennan Leach
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Joined March 2014
- Sen. Hawley, now a YES on ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ says Rs have a “lot of thinking to do” on Medicaid. “We can't be cutting healthcare for working people and for poor people in order to constantly give special tax treatment to corporations,” he told me.
00:00 - Sen. John Fetterman says Donald Trump tapping Rep. Matt Gaetz for Attorney General is “god tier level trolling.”
00:00 - Senate pages, all 16 or 17 years old, carry the mahogany vote boxes from the Senate to the House chamber
- 2:15am — Murkowski & Collins head to the floor as the Senate continues voting on amendments to Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.” Murkowski and Collins both declined to say how they’d vote on final passage this hour.
- .@JDVance slammed Dems for the potential govt shutdown, saying they want to limit Trump’s “negotiating leverage” and “fight for global censorship bullshit" after the CR failed in the House tonight. “They’ve asked for a shutdown… that’s exactly what they’re going to get.”
00:00 - On day 15 of the shutdown, Sen. Jim Justice celebrated BabyDog’s 6th birthday with a “bi-pawtisan” bday bash The party was complete with cake pops, balloons, and a quick press conference w/ @news_jul
- NEW with @JulieNBCNews on Rep. Derrick Van Orden cursing at Senate pages: the congressman screamed “inches from the pages’ faces” and “shooed” them multiple times, source says. “I don’t give a f---who you are. I’m a congressman.”
00:00₿ig things are coming👀- Rep. McIver says the charges against her are “political intimidation” + she found out she was charged via social media last night
00:00 - After falling to the ground, McConnell waves to Sunrise Movement volunteers who were asking him questions about ICE deportations when he tripped McConnell walked off holding the arms of his detail
- Vice President-Elect JD Vance enters the Capitol the day of Senate Republican Leadership elections, ignores Qs from reporters
00:00 - Sen. Lindsey Graham tells me he doesn’t care about the police report on sexual assault allegations against Pete Hegseth. “We’re not gonna try Pete Hegseth or Matt Gaetz based on press statements. Stop asking.” Q: It's a police report not a press statement. “I don’t care.”
